Question

summarize adult health nursing ethic such as
medicalization, compliance adherence and concordance, valuing self determination in a medicalization environment cultural views on medicalization and treatment regimens, chronic disease and illness, ethical concerns and suffering, providing ethical care

Answer 1

Medicalization

An illness, disorder or disease that "is not ipso facto a medical problem, rather, it needs to become defined as one for the problem to become medicalized and
the trend for labeling human social conditions as medical problems

Compliance

An assumed agreement between a patient and a healthcare professional about a proposed treatment regimen which is taken as an indication that the patient intends to follow the healthcare professional's plan.

Adherence

The degree to which a patient follows a health care professional's prescribed treatment regimen.

Suggests a higher level of patient involvement and agreement than compliance.

Concordance

An approach to medication wherein a patient and provider agree on a treatment regimen after a discussion of the patient's beliefs and wishes in regard to the medication, if, when and how a medicine is used

Value of self determination in medicalization play a important role as it give the strength to individual to deal with the medicalization.

Cultural aspect of medicalization : Contemporary arguments suggest that individuals usually make selective and pragmatic use of medical technology in order to meet their own objectives. Discussion of the medicalization of menopause, and of the representation of genes as quasi-pathogens show how biomedical knowledge and practices are co-produced in association with social values and political interests

Ethical care : a) By increase understanding of ethics.

b) By communicate efficiently with patients.

c) By advocacy

d) By mutual understanding.